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I am wanting to learn to Practice the Presence of God more and more in my daily life. Not just for those God things I know I need Him for,nor leaving Him just in the set apart time for devotions.

My oldest son married Saturday night April 26th. He has chosen a precious bride and I have seen the two of them bloom in their relationship together. They are supporting and loving each other in this life they are creating. I know it is good, perfecting them.

Saturday was a busy day, loading things, decorating, remembering to provide food for people too busy to think about eating. Needless to say there was no set apart time to be in God’s presence, therefore a great time to practice His presence in the midst of REAL living.

I had been running and finally headed off to take my shower and dress for the celebration. I have a scripture flip chart in my dressing area and each day look forward to reading what comes up. I paused a moment before flipping it over yesterday and thought “Lord, would you bring a scripture up today that will speak to me for this very important day?” Would He? Could He? What would My Father possibly say to me on this important and emotional day? I flipped the chart and was overcome with JOY. This is what I read.

April 26 Revelation 19:7 the Message

“ Hallelujah! Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.”

I know this is talking about the second coming of Christ to receive His bride, but on this day it was a reminder that My Father had joined us-or had we joined Him, in this covenant representation of Marriage? It was an overwhelming blessing to read this knowing that this flip chart had been published in 2005. Words cannot express what this meant to me, and all the orchestration it took for Him to make His presence known to me today at this moment, on this very special day.

I am showered with blessings! I will continue to learn to Practice His Presence,  learn to listen and hear His voice, to receive His love, and trust that He cares for me in my busy days as well as the days I give Him more time.

Learning with you to Realize the Presence of the Father

Tanya 

5 minutes of joyous worship and a reminder of the light that we have found, and the pit from which we have been rescued.

Words are in my “Theme Song” post, located in Recent Posts.

Move cursor over the underlined song title below, start video and

Enjoy Dancing in the Light with me.

Tanya

Marvelous Light by Charlie Hall

If you know me — you are aware that I have these weird ponderings sometimes. I want to read scripture with fresh eyes, to see Jesus for who He is and not what I think He should be–besides I don’t even know what that is most days anyway.

In John 20:13-18, Mary didn’t recognize the risen Christ- she thought He was a Gardener.

In John 21, The disciples didn’t recognize Jesus from their fishing boat.

The men walking to Emmaus walked for miles with Jesus and thought He was a uninformed stranger.

These people had lived with Jesus and had loved Him, why didn’t they recognize Him? I wonder what had changed about Him?

When we see pictures of the risen Christ, He is glowing all in white. I think if I saw a man all glowing and white I would recognize there was something different about Him. I would have considered Him to be at the least an angel.

But after Jesus rose from the dead He was mistaken for a gardener, a traveler, a fisherman.  Ordinary–not this supernatural glowing white Messiah.

What caused all of them to recognize Him was that He stepped into their daily ordinary lives and spoke familiar words to them. He reentered their lives in familiar places, places they had felt His love, the places they had known He cared deeply for them. He called their names, He shared, He came to their turf so to speak.  He met them where they were living and in their daily lives He opened their eyes to see Him, the one they had been longing to see. Not a weird apparition, but a extraordinary man risen from the dead, their friend, familiar, their God loved and alive.

Ordinary situations, Ordinary words, Extraordinary forgiveness and love.

Jesus open my eyes, speak my name, call out to me in my ordinary boat, let me see the Holy and divine in this ordinary life I live. Awaken my spirit to the risen Christ that comes to me — mistaken as a gardener, a traveler and a fisherman, someone who comes and walks along side me in my everyday circumstances.  

Extraordinary Ordinary Me

Tanya

Have you ever had one of those times when things get too busy and you find that 3-4 days have passed without being in the word? I am there now and I miss the the word so much, I miss the invitation to pray, the way it initiates a conversation with my Heavenly Father, and Lord. I miss the invitation to meditate and let my mind get lost in the thoughts of Christ.

As I sit here this noisy evening, I miss the word, I miss the Lord, I miss being still and knowing that He Is God.

I will be up early in the morning, everyone goes to work and school and guess where I will be– You will find me in the word.

 I miss you